Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking
LIFESTYLE & CONTEMPORARY CULTURE CATEGORY WINNER 2009
Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking - Alexa Johnston
Penguin Group (NZ), ISBN 978-0-14300-863-7, $45.00 pbk
There is a good chance you can remember a time when the family cake tins were always full of baking. In Ladies, A Plate, Alexa Johnston looks back to this gentler time and shares her favourite traditional New Zealand recipes. Alexa also writes about the history of some New Zealand baking classics, showing how our favourite recipes evolved over time.
Alexa Johnston works as a freelance art curator and writer. Her definitive biography of the iconic New Zealand hero, Sir Edmund Hillary: An Extraordinary Life, was a finalist in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. An enthusiastic and accomplished baker from a young age, Alexa has an impressive collection of both cooking utensils and Kiwiana cookbooks.
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